T8urmoney;276195 wrotenah, don't like the starting stack and structure for the $330......the monthly $300 is same structure, but 20K in chips....much better value
Quoted from another post, but probably better to post this here:
I understand what you're referring to, but better value isn't the correct term. You want deeper play, but that doesn't necessarily make it better value. Especially the live tournaments here. The play is rather poor at all stack depths, that it doesn't really make it better/worse value...but it may increase variance.
In terms of the actual structure, I would agree that more people would like to have more play. I think live players don't understand structures and the tournaments at the casinos here fail to optimize the structures for a one day tourney. They see an increase starting stack to make a deeper tournament. This really isn't true.
Increasing the starting stacks, makes for more meaningless play at the beginning...but near the end of the day...the average bbs of players remaning doesn't really differ.
As an example: I played the $560. With about 20 players left, we were playing 3k/6k. About 180 registered w/ 12k starting stack. With 20 people left, the average stack size is 18 bbs.
At the next blind level of 4k/8k? If no one busts, the avg stack size would be 13.5 bbs.
The problems is that whenever you go deep in a tournament, all the previously skipped levels compound...and you get to the point where the average stack is the shallowest at the most significantly critical point of a tournament...the end.
The easiest way to really fix it, is set up the structure correctly from the beginning.
If I ran the tournament, I would start by eliminating the 25/50 level. Begin with more meaningful poker at the 50/100 level. Instead of jumping from 30 minute levels to 45 minute levels. I would rather see them keep 30 minute levels, but add more levels. Once you get up to a newly created 2.5k/5k level..then increase the level to 40 minutes. One last obvious tweak is to increase the antes to ~1/3 to 1/4th the SB...and introduce them earlier. This prevents the short stacks from folding and waiting for hands.